Sex and oppression in Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex'

• Main Author: Chan, Carmen Ker Shin
• Other Authors: Anu Selva-Thomson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165466
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores how Beauvoir’s unique position as a woman commenting on the ‘feminine condition’ in The Second Sex lead to fundamental differences from Sartre’s philosophy in Being and Nothingness. It shows how Beauvoir and Sartre’s views diverge in two ways: in differing obstacles to freedom, a...